Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It could - and _should_ dammit! - do some basic sanity tests like "is 
> the thing even in the same stack page"? But nooo... It seems 
> _designed_ to be fragile and broken.
>
> Here's a simple test: if the next stack-slot isn't on the same page, 
> the unwind information is bogus unless you had the IRQ stack-switch 
> signature there. Does the code do that? No. It just assumes that 
> unwind information is complete and perfect.

fully agreed - i have pointed out areas of conceptual fragility to Jan 
early on:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/2/59

(but AFAICS i got no reply to that mail - i missed that in the lockdep 
flurry.)

	Ingo
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